The Avenue Mine Blog
Expert advice on finding venues, working with vendors, and planning events that leave a mark.
A detailed, hour-by-hour run of show for a three-act concert, with the logic behind each block and the buffers that keep you inside curfew.
The advance is where a show is won or lost. Here is a complete production advance checklist covering schedule, technical, hospitality, logistics, and settlement items.
How to translate an artist's needs and a venue's limits into a production specification: staging, PA, monitors, lighting, rigging, and power.
The right concert venue is about more than the room size. Here is a technical checklist for capacity, load-in, stage, power, acoustics, and the details that only show up on a site visit.
Riders are where an artist's needs turn into your costs. Here is how to read the technical and hospitality rider, cost each line, and redline what you cannot provide.
Every concert is a fixed deadline with dozens of dependencies. Here is how to plan backward from doors so nothing critical lands in the final week.
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